Our employees are working with passion for you

We are committed to ensuring that emergency personnel can gain their own operational experience in our training infrastructure. This gain of experience should be so intense and sustainable that trained and drilled emergency personnel can successfully and safely overcome the expected challenges with confidence.

The strategic management

Our Board of Directors consists of five members and is responsible for strategic planning and supervision of the Executive Board.

The operative team

We would like to introduce you to our motivated team, who put their heart and soul into their work for you every day. We ensure that you will find optimal conditions for the training of emergency forces and that the participants can gain valuable operational experience.

Executive Board & Administration
Executive Board

Urs Kummer

CEO & Head of Products

T: +41 62 386 11 00

E: urs.kummer(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Daniel Berchtold

Deputy CEO & Head of Sales

T: +41 62 386 11 01

E: daniel.berchtold(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Tactical-operational management, responsible for quality and safety management, internal and external communication and a people-orientated corporate culture
Sekretariat & Course Administration

Elisabeth Kull

Team Leader Course Administration

T: +41 62 386 11 03

E: elisabeth.kull(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Eliane Scherrer

Course Administration Clerk

T: +41 62 386 11 19

E: eliane.scherrer(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Jeanine Beck

Course Administration Clerk

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: jeanine.beck(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Vera Tona

Course Administration Clerk

T: +41 62 386 11 04

E: vera.tona(at)ifa-swiss.ch
Training
Head

Marianne Wernli

Head of Training & Training Counsellor Europe (f/i)

T: +41 62 386 11 22

E: marianne.wernli(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Andreas Schneider

Deputy Head of Training

T: +41 62 386 11 23

E: andreas.schneider(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Planning, implementation and invoicing of training and further education, courses and training programmes as well as the training and further education of instructors
Instruction
Senior Instructors

Alex Pedroni

Senior Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 20

E: alex.pedroni(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Antonio Angelicchio

Senior Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 28

E: antonio.angelicchio

Christian Thalmann

Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: christian.thalmann(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Frank Reinarz

Senior instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 25

E: frank.reinarz(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Joseph Ferry

Senior Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 26

E: joseph.ferry(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Michael Koch

Senior Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 24

E: michael.koch(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Pierre-Yves Jost

Senior Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 29

E: pierre-yves.jost(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Sandro Stramonio

Senior Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 27

E: sandro.stramonio(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Instructors

Nadine Rölli

Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: nadine.roelli(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Remo Hecht

Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: remo.hecht(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Roland Guntern

Instructor

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: roland.guntern(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Part-time instructors

Alec Rouiller

Alessandro Intimi

André Rohrer

Andy Wagner

Antoine Seuret

Beat Suter

Beat Walther

Bruno Boppart

Charles-André Paupe

Christoph Kübler

Christoph Rhyner

Cyrill Obrecht

Daniel Jauch

Daniel Spiess

Daniel Zimmermann

Daniele Succetti

Denys Masoni

Dominik Straumann

Federico Ferrario

Fernando De Giorgi

Jérôme Flury

Jonas Petraglio

Julien Tornay

Kurt Heynen

Laurent Petignat

Luca Falconi

Marc Balmer

Marc Mürset

Marcel Schleuniger

Marco Lötscher

Markus Spiess

Martin Helfer

Mattia Vassalli

Michael Deppeler

Michael Kobler

Michael Werder

Michel Eggimann

Milton Dos Santos

Nicola Bianchi

Olivier Savary

Otello Quaranta

Pascal Eichmann

Patrick Wipfli

Philipp Binggeli

Philippe Rayroud

Pierre-André Weber

Pietro Oliverio

Ralf Inderbitzin

Remo Kämpfer

Renata Strauss-Gerardi

Reto Landolt

Riadh Hadj-Azzame

Richard Rieder

Rino Zampedri

Roland Suter

Romain Delavy

Romain Veya

Roy Laffer

Sam van der Weee

Sandro Dell'Agnola

Sandro Pfister

Simon Fürst

Stefan Rettenmund

Stefan Tresch

Stephan Volery

Sylvain Burnier

Thierry Brunner

Thomas Eglauf

Thomas Kellenberger

Thomas Luder

Thomas Marcandi

Thomas Stalder

Tobias Endres

Tobias Heckenkamp

Ueli Roth

Urs Schüpbach

Vincent Lavanchy

Vincent Radelet

Vinzenz Graf

Walter Wicki

Werner Stampfli
Operations
Head

Markus Burger

Head of Operations

T: +41 62 386 11 30

E: markus.burger(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Ueli Leuenberger

Deputy Head of Operations & Team Leader Technology

T: +41 62 386 11 34

E: ueli.leuenberger(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Ensuring the availability of training infrastructure, materials and vehicles and providing accommodation services
Technology

Ueli Leuenberger

Deputy Head of Operations & Team Leader Technology

T: +41 62 386 11 34

E: ueli.leuenberger(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Alex Biedermann

Technician

T: +41 62 386 11 36

E: alex.biedermann(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Christian Zeltner

Technician

T: +41 62 386 11 39

E: christian.zeltner(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Lorenz Kohler

Technician

T: +41 62 386 11 37

E: lorenz.kohler(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Mark Schnider

Technician

T: +41 62 386 11 38

E: mark.schnider(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Michel Derendinger

Caretaker

T: +41 62 386 11 33

E: michel.derendinger(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Philip Bieli

Technician

T: +41 62 386 11 35

E: philip.bieli(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Urs Meier

Technician

T: +41 62 386 11 32

E: urs.meier(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Accommodation

Isabella Moser

Team Leader Accomodation

T: +41 62 386 11 47

E: isabella.moser(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Christa Bregy

Deputy Team Leader Accomodation

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: christa.bregy(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Barbara von Burg

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: barbara.vonburg(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Dragana Jankovic

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: dragana.jankovic(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Elfete Kameri

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: elfete.kameri(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Janett Müller

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: janett.mueller(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Jonas Steinger

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: jonas.steinger(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Katarzyna Dyderska

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: katarzyna.dyderska(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Marco Flück

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: marco.flueck(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Milica Stanisic

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: milica.stanisic(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Miriam Probst

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: miriam.probst(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Rita Eschler

Accommodation Employee

T: +41 62 386 11 46

E: rita.eschler(at)ifa-swiss.ch
Finance & Services
Head

Judith Stephani

Head of Finances & Services

T: +41 62 386 11 10

E: judith.stephani(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Finance and controlling as well as the provision of internal services (including IT support, personnel administration, ifaSHOP)
Finance & Services

Shkurt Shehu

Accountant

T: +41 62 386 11 15

E: shkurt.shehu(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Ramona von Arx

Personnel Clerk

T: +41 62 386 11 15

E: ramona.vonarx(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Sanjitha Manivannan

Trainee

T: +41 62 386 11 13

E: sanjitha.manivannan(at)ifa-swiss.ch
Products
Head

Urs Kummer

CEO & Head of Products

T: +41 62 386 11 00

E: urs.kummer(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Identification, design and evaluation of learning services and systemic organisational consulting (intervention concepts, tactics workshops)
Products & Systemic Organisational Consulting

Marco Nigg

Product Manager

T: +41 62 386 11 60

E: marco.nigg(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Christian Brauner

Organisational Consultant & Head of Didactics and Development Team

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: christian.brauner(at)ifa-swiss.ch
Sales
Head

Daniel Berchtold

Deputy CEO & Head of Sales

T: +41 62 386 11 01

E: daniel.berchtold(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Training counselling, maintenance and expansion of existing customer relationships and systematic acquisition of new customers
Training counsellors

Clemens Pessel

Training Counsellor Europe (e/g)

T: +41 62 386 11 66

E: clemens.pessel(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Jörg Winkler

Training Counsellor Overseas (e/g)

T: +41 62 386 11 11

E: joerg.winkler(at)ifa-swiss.ch

Marianne Wernli

Head of Training & Training Counsellor Europe (f/i)

T: +41 62 386 11 22

E: marianne.wernli(at)ifa-swiss.ch